Quote #3

Ex nihilo nihil fit.

Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

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  1. Cogito, ergo sum.
  2. Me tenant comme je suis, un pied dans un pays et l'autre en un autre, je trouve ma condition tres heureuse, en ce qu'elle est libre.
  3. Dubium sapientiae initium.
  4. Of all things, good sense is the most fairly distributed: everyone thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those who are the hardes…
  5. Variants: Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that …
  6. It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
  7. The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
  8. The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

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